Gaspar Puch-Tzek, a 22-year-old San Francisco resident who worked as a cook at Hog & Rocks, died Wednesday of gunshot wounds, according to the medical examiner. Police say the victim was mistaken for a gang member.

Puch-Tzek, who at 12:30 a.m. Tuesday had just gotten off work from the 19th and San Carlos restaurant, was smoking a cigarette with two co-workers when two men in their mid-20s approached the group. The suspects, using a derogatory word for Sureños, asked who the workers claimed, Corrales said.

When the victim made it clear that he claimed no gang, one of the suspects shot him in the face and then fled with his accomplice west on 19th Street.

A witness heard the gunshots. “They were loud gunshots, someone screamed, ‘Call the police,'” she said, still shaken from the experience. “I ran out and he was shot in the head.”

“I’m shocked; this is a nice area. I haven’t heard a gunshot in three or four years,” said Michael Hammash, a buser at Hog & Rocks who has lived in the building for 14 years.

Puch-Tzek was taken to San Francisco General Hospital where he later died.